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The recurring motif of a tree connecting heaven and earth appears across traditions—from Norse Yggdrasil with its serpent to Amazonian depictions with the snake entwined around a sacred tree. These symbols suggest an ingrained human intuition about the interconnectedness of life, death, and transcendence. Deep psychological roots underpin these images, reflecting our collective unconscious and perhaps an intrinsic understanding that reality is a complex, layered system.